NYC Public School Students Can Skip State Tests This Year With No Penalties (New York: assessments)

[Aeran]

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-publi...9753b-91331958

New York City public school officials are allowing students in grades 3-8 to opt out of state assessments this year with no penalties, with families required to notify their schools if they want to take tests.

Otherwise, all students are by default not participating in the state tests this year, the Department of Education announced Tuesday.

The new policy is only for this school year, the DOE said, in recognition of the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of education.

[prospectheightsresident]

If they go this route, they might as well just make everyone who doesn’t take and pass repeat the entire damn year. Ostensibly this is being put into place because they didn’t learn enough to pass the test due to the unconventional school year. But you don’t advance such students to the next grade!